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The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognised
elements of Celtic culture. But could it be that a significant
non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored
or unknown for centuries? This book argues just such a case,
maintaining that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100
forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that much of the
population, including several national heroes, villains, rulers,
nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and
ministers, was of Jewish descent. They describe how the ancestors
of these persons originated in France and Spain and then made their
way to Scotland's shores, moors, burgs and castles from the reign
of Malcolm Canmore to the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. It
is proposed here that much of the traditional historical account of
Scotland rests on fundamental interpretive errors, and that these
errors have been perpetuated in order to manufacture and maintain
an origin for Scotland that affirms its identity as a Celtic,
Christian society. This equation of Scotland with Celtic culture in
the popular (and academic) imagination has buried a more accurate
and profound understanding of its history. The authors'
wide-ranging research includes examination of census records,
archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions,
religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble
genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place
names.
What if the history of America's largest Indian nation is actually
a polite modern fiction, one invented by "anthropologists and other
friends"? In this sweeping revisionist study of the Cherokee
Indians, a scholar trained in classical philology and the new
science of genetics discloses the inside story of his tribe.
Combining evidence from historical records, esoteric sources like
the Keetoowah and Shalokee Warrior Society, archeology,
linguistics, religion, myth, sports and music, and DNA, this first
new take on the subject in a hundred years guides the reader, ever
so surely, into the secret annals of the Eshelokee, whose true name
and origins have remained hidden until now. The narrative starts in
the third century BCE and concludes with the Cherokees' removal to
Indian Territory in the nineteenth century, when all standard
histories just begin. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, Romans
and Phoenicians have long departed from the world stage. The
Cherokee remain after more than two thousand years and are their
heirs.
As the twentieth century drew to an end and the millennium
approached, a new ethnic category was invented in the South. The
Melungeons were born thrashing and squawling into the American
consciousness. They were a tri-racial clan hidden away in the hills
and hollers of Lower Appalachia with a genetic predisposition to
six fingers and Mediterranean diseases and an unsavory reputation
for moonshining, counterfeiting and secret cults. DNA studies
showed they were probably descended from Portuguese colonists and
had connections with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans and
Romani (Gypsies). Were they the country's oldest indigenous people?
They soon got on the radar of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office
of Recognition, which fought the nascent identity movement tooth
and nail. This collection by two researchers involved in the
explosive controversy tells the story of the Melungeon Movement in
a coherent, chronological fashion for the first time. Fourteen
original illlustrations, ranging from Granny Dollar, the last
Cherokee Indian in Northeast Alabama, to Luis Gomez, builder of the
oldest standing Jewish residence in the United States, add interest
to the portrayal of this mysterious and exotic ethnic community.
This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial
numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never
been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later
Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary
to popular history, the Jewish population was not expelled from
England in 1310, but rather adopted the public face of
Christianity, while continuing to practice Judaism in secret.
Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims held the highest offices in the
land, including service as archbishops, dukes, earls, kings and
queens. Among those we propose were of Jewish ancestry are the
Tudor kings, William the Conqueror, and Thomas Cromwell.
Documentaton in support of this revisionist history includes
contemporary DNA studies, genealogies, church records, place names
and the Domesday Book.
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